Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 19:42:26 +0000 From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot from 2nd drive Message-ID: <199705160311.UAA16532@train.tgci.com>
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> > > >>> "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com> 05/14/97 > > 07:38am >>> > > I've seen similar stuff here, but not quite the problem > > I'm having. > > Nothing in a (quick) search of the archives, either. > > > > I'm currently running 2.1.7-R on an IDE drive (1.2 GB > > Maxtor). Has a > > 50MB DOS partition, the rest fbsd. > > > > The second drive, which will (hopefully) soon replace > > the above, is a > > Seagate ST51080N 1GB scsi riding a 2940W. > > > > The scsi has a 50 MB DOS partition, and I did an ftp > > install of > > 2.2.1-R on the remainder. And I can't boot from it. > > Usually. > > Installed booteasy, comes up F1 dos, F2 FBSD, F5 Second > > Disk. If I > > press F5 it then shows F? and nothing works. > > > > If I disable (bios) the ide drive, it boots F1 F2, but > > again gives F? > > when pressed. > > > > With both drives enabled and pressing F2 for the IDE > > drive, if at the > > boot prompt I type in sd(0,a)/kernel which should be > > the scsi 2.2.1, > > it boots 2.1.7. > > Ok, a more thorough check revels the faq sez that the boot manager's "F?" prompt indicates a drive geometry problem. As I said, using a boot floppy allows me to run 2.2.1 from the second drive. I'm not clear on this: Can I run the system from a drive who's geometry prevents booting from it? Maybe so--one time I saw a translation problem ran into it was with NT using a few 2 GB scsis, but it would boot. Just gave an annoying error. Oh well. And this is a 1 GB drive. I've never seen a geometry problem with this size of drive, but ok, I'll set drive translation to on and see what happens. I haven't had time yet to reinstall and play around with it. It is a live server for one, and the ftp speed from wc is lousy. So are the North American mirrors. However, there are others... Well, I guess I'll try another install, but will be checking the list for any (hint hint!) pointers. Thanks again, Riley > > (Don't know if it means anything, but the root of the > > second disk did > > not have a "kernal", just kernel.GENERIC, which I > > copied. ) > > > > I *can* boot 2.2.1 if I disable the IDE and use the > > boot floppy. > > I've played around in sysinstall's disk labeller to > > make the drive > > bootable, doesn't help. > > > > One more thing, the bootinst table for booteasy shows > > neither the > > DOS or fbsd partitions as bootable on the scsi disk. > > > > Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. > > > > tia, > > > > Riley > > > > > > >
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